Gradient enhancement and filament ejection for a non-uniform elliptic vortex in two-dimensional turbulence

Journal of Fluid Mechanics

Volumn 439, Issue , 2001, Pages 43-56

  Kimura, Y ^a,b   Herring, J R ^b  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; STRAIN RATE; TENSORS; VORTEX FLOW;

NON-UNIFORM ELLIPTIC VORTEX; PALINSTROPHY;

TURBULENT FLOW;

TURBULENCE; TWO-DIMENSIONAL FLOW; VORTEX;

EID: 0035948717     PISSN: 00221120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022112001004529     Document Type: Article

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